Carboy



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c:.' LEFKOWITZ 1549578 GARBOY Filed Aug. 31, 1923 IN VEN TOR WITNESSES ATTORNE YS nane are r...

CHAR-LES LEFIKO'WITZ, 01E NEW'ARK, NEW' JERSEY.

CARBOY.

Application filed August 31, 1923. Serial No. 660,396.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Crrannns Imrnowrrz, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and Improved Carboy, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a carboy which may be madestrong, light in weight, inexpensive to construct, and with a minimumamount of material.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a carboy withlateral supporting members for a bottle, the lateral supporting membershaving shoulder blocks at their ends which abut against inner portionsof the carboy. The shoulder blocks which abut against the inner portionsof the carboy prevent the movement of the lateral supporting membershorizontally parallel with the adjacent side of the carboy body, thelateral supporting members being held outwardly in position by a bottledisposed in the carboy. While the lateral sup porting members willtherefore be held in position when in use, should they become damaged,they may be readily raised out of the body of the carboy to permit oftheir replacement.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the followingspecification in which the preferred form of my invention is described:

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 illustrates in perspective a carboy constructed in accordancewith this invention, parts of the carboy being broken away; and,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a modified form of the carboy.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings a carboy body is shown at 5, this carboy bodyhaving inner corner pieces 6 such as are usually provided for holdingthe sides 7 of the carboy body in position and relatively to each other.Disposed within the carboy body there are lateral supporting members 8for the bottle which will be disposed in the carboy body. These lateralsupporting members may be constructed in any desired manner but they arepreferably constructed of horizontal pieces 9, which are connected byvertically extending pieces 10. I prefer to use two vertically extendingpieces 10 for each of the lateral supporting members, these verticallyextending pieces 10 bepreji'erably spaced apart so that when the bottleis disposed in the carboy body, they will engage the bottle. In everycase the lateral extending members 8 have shoulder blocks 11 at theirends to engage'the inner surfaces of the carboy body 5. In theconstruction illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings these shoulder blocks11, engage the corner pieces 6 but they may be constructed to engageother portions of the carboy body as will be hereinafter described.

t will be understood that the lateral supporting members 8 will be heldoutwardly by the bottle disposed in the carboy body 5 and that they willbe prevented from moving horizontally parallel with the sides 7 of thecarboy body by the shoulder blocks 11 which abut against the cornerpieces 6. Therefore, the lateral supporting members vaich are engaged bythe bottle contained in the carboy body will support the bottlelaterally in accoroance with the requirements. i Vhile this is so, whenthe bottle has been removed from the carboy body 5, any one or all .ofthe lateral supporting members 8 may be readily raised from the carboybody for replacement should one or more of the lateral supportingmembers be damaged in transportation.

In the construction illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the carboybody is constructed as has been described. However, in the Fig. 2 of thedrawings the shoulder blocks 11 are triangular in cross section and theyengage the interior of the carboy body between the corner pieces 6. Inother respects the construction of the lateral supporting members 8Scorresponds with the construction of the supporting members 8 which areshown in Fi 1 of the drawings.

The shoulder blocks 11 prevent the horizontal movement of the lateralsupporting members 8 in the longitudinal plane in which they aredisposed, the bottle shown by the dotted lines 12 in Fig. 2 of thedrawings serving to prevent the inward movement of the lateralsupporting members 8 As will be seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings thevertically extending members 10 of the lat eral supporting members 8engage the bottle shown by the dotted lines at 12.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a carboy, a complete hollow body with means for holding the partstogether, four lateral supporting members in the hollow body, andvertical shoulder blocks free from each other and free from the hollowbody secured one at each end to each of the lateral supporting members,the shoulder blocks having extending surfaces which abut against the.hollow body, the lateral supporting members withthe shoulder blocksbeing removable from the hollow body.

2. In a carboy, a complete hollow body with means for holding the partstogether, four removable, horizontally disposed, lateral supportingmembers in the hollow body disposed to form an angular figure andvertical shoulder blocks free from each other, secured one to each endof each of the lateral supporting members at their outer surfaces whichabut against the hollow body.

3. In a carboy, a complete hollow body with means for holding the partstogether, a plurality of lateral supporting members in the hollow bodyand shoulder blocks triangular in cross section secured one at each endof each of the lateral supporting members at their outer surfaces, asurface of each shoulder abutting against the inner face of the hollowbody, the lateral supporting members with the shoulders being removablefrom the hollow body.

l. In a carboy, a hollow body, angular incross section, a plurality oflateral supporting members disposed in the hollow body, each end of eachlateral supporting member being disposed between and spaced from twocorners of the hollow body, and shoulder blocks triangular in crosssection, :tree from each other, the outer faces of the lateralsupporting members at their ends being secured to faces of the shoulderblocks,

and other faces on the shoulder blocks abut ting against the hollowbody, the lateral supporting members and the shoulder blocks beingremovable from the hollow body.

5. In a carboy a complete hollow body with four vertical corner posts,each corner post having two inner sides, a plurality of lateralsupporting members in the hollow body and eight vertical shoulderblocks, one disposed at each of the said sides of the corner posts, thelateral supporting members having their ends secured to the shoulderblocks and being removable therewith from the hollow body.

6. In a carboy, a complete hollow bot y with tour vertical corner posts,each post having two inner sides, a plurality of lateral supportingmembers in the hollow body, and eight vertical shoulder blocks, onedisposed at each of the said sides of the corner post, the lateralsupporting members being removable and being secured at their outer'laces adjacent their ends to the shoulder blocks to space the lateralsupporting members from the sides oi? the body.

7. In a carboy, a rectangular hollow body, four lateral supportingmembers disposed obliquely in the hollow body, each end of each lateralsupporting member being disposed between and spaced from two corners orthe hollow body, and shoulder blocks triangular in cross section, freefrom each other, the outer faces of the lateral supporting members attheir ends being secured to faces of the shoulder blocks, with otherfaces on the shoulder blocks abutting against the hollow body, thelateral supporting members and the shoulder blocks being removable fromthe hollow body.

CHARLES L'EFKOl/VITZ.

